Risk management plan cost calculator
Adjust the inputs to see how administration time for risk management plans adds up across your excursion program. This is an estimate only—not financial or legal advice.
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Enter times in hours (for example, 30 minutes is 0.5). Costs are shown in AUD.
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Typical participants at each stage (the same person may count in both roles).
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Time per risk management plan8.5 hours
Cost per risk management plan$552.5
Annual time (all plans)680 hours
Annual staff cost$44,200
Equivalent work days per year89.5 days
Based on your inputs, your school may be spending around 680 staff hours per year creating, reviewing, revising, and approving risk management plans.
This does not factor any mistakes that lead to risks being missed or not being controlled correctly.
This is an estimate only - not financial or legal advice.
What this calculator helps you understand
This calculator estimates the time and staff cost involved in creating, reviewing, managing, updating, and approving school risk management plans. It is designed to help schools understand the hidden administrative cost behind risk management, especially for excursions, camps, incursions, sport, outdoor education, and other school activities.
The result is not a formal financial assessment, but it can help school leaders, business managers, compliance teams, and excursion coordinators estimate how much time is being spent on manual risk management processes.
Why risk management plans take time
Risk management plans often involve more than simply filling out a form. Staff may need to identify hazards, assess likelihood and consequence, add control measures, check student needs, confirm supervision arrangements, review medical considerations, collect supporting information, make revisions, and send the plan through approval.
When this happens across many excursions and school activities each year, even small amounts of admin time can become a significant operational cost.
Common tasks included in risk management plan admin
| Task | What it usually involves |
|---|---|
| Creating the plan | Writing the activity details, identifying hazards, adding controls, and completing the risk matrix |
| Reviewing the plan | Checking completeness, risk ratings, controls, supervision, and emergency details |
| Revising the plan | Updating the plan after feedback, changes to the activity, or missing information |
| Approving the plan | Leadership or compliance review before the activity can proceed |
| Managing records | Storing final plans, keeping audit history, and ensuring documents are easy to find later |
| Reusing previous work | Finding past hazards, controls, templates, or similar activity plans |
Why manual risk management can become expensive
Manual risk management processes can be costly because the work is often repeated across multiple activities. Staff may recreate similar hazards and controls, chase approvals by email, search through old documents, or update plans manually when details change.
A structured system can help reduce duplicated effort by giving staff a consistent way to create, review, approve, and reuse risk management information.
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Helpful related resources
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|---|---|
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| Excursion approvals in AnySchool | See how risk plans, tasks, and approvals move through one workflow |
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